Madame Collection

Madame Butterfly
Cover of the score of Madame Butterfly by Puccini

Madame Helena Blavatsky
Undated cutting of head and shoulders photograph of Madame Helena Blavatsky - founder of Theosophy and the Theosophical Society. HPG/1/13/1 (ii)

Deborah Mitford by Madame Yevonde
The Hon. Deborah ( Debo ) Mitford (born 1920-), daughter of Lord Redesdale and youngest of the six Mitford sisters, pictured shortly before her marriage to Lord Andrew Cavendish

Hon. Lorraine Berry by Madame Yevonde
The Hon. Mary Lorraine Berry by Madame Yevonde. She was the second daughter of the late Lord Buckland

Carmen Presented by Cuyahoga County Opera Association and the Federal Music Project : Ballet directed by Madame Bianca. Poster for Federal Music Project presentation of Carmen, showing a matador

Madam Butterfly
A female attendant helps Madama Butterfly to dress

Madame Sarah Bernhardt as Theodora - photograph by Downey
Madame Sarah Bernhardt as Theodora - photograph by Messrs Downey. Date: 1894

Lady Elizabeth and Lady Rose Paget by Mme Yevonde
Lady Elizabeth and Lady Rose Paget by Madame Yevonde. Lady Elizabeth Hester Mary Paget (1916-1980) was the second daughter of the 6th Marquess of Anglesey, making her debut in 1933

Wombwells Poster
A poster from Bostock and Wombwells circus, featuring Madame Jumbo, performing horses and various other beasts, birds and reptiles. Date: Late 19th century

Lady Diana and Elizabeth Percy by Madame Yevonde
Lady Diana and Elizabeth Percy, the two daughters of the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland. Lady Diana was being presented by her mother at one of the June courts

A Madame Yevonde portrait of Lady Elizabeth Paget
Lady Elizabeth Paget, daughter of the Marquess of Anglesey, was one of the train-bearers to Queen Elizabeth at the coronation of George VI

A Madame Yevonde portrait of the Duchess of Gloucester
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901-2004) with her two sons Prince William (left) and Prince Richard (right), the current Duke of Gloucester

A Madame Yevonde portrait of Baba Beaton
Miss Baba Beaton is the younger of the two beautiful and attractive Beaton girls. They are among the most popular of the blonde ex-debs, and no party is complete without them

Female Blondin / Tightrope
Madame Genevieve Young, the Female Blondin crosses the Thames between Battersea and Cremorne

Aerial view of Regents Park in London
Aerial view of Regents Park, Baker Street and Madame Tussauds waxwork museum in Marylebone Road, London c. 1910

Madame Recamier
JEANNE-FRANCOISE-JULIE- ADELAIDE RECAMIER nee BERNARD Also known as MADAME RECAMIER, influential French social and political hostess

Scene from the opera, Madame Butterfly, by Giacomo Puccini
The lead character, Cio-Cio San (Madame Butterfly) in Puccinis opera in three acts. Date: c.1910

Miss Susan Morland Date: 1952

Lady Diana Abdy by Madame Yevonde
(Helen) Diana (nÚÑáBridgeman), Lady Abdy (1907 - 1967), Fashion leader; wife of Sir Robert Henry Abdy; daughter of 5th Earl of Bradford

Lady Diana Abdy (Bridgeman)
(Helen) Diana (nÚÑáBridgeman), Lady Abdy (1907-1967), Fashion leader; wife of Sir Robert Henry Abdy; daughter of 5th Earl of Bradford 1936

Liza Maugham and Vincent Paravicini
Front cover of The Bystander announcing the engagement of Liza Maugham and Vincent Paravinci. He was the Swiss ministers son, she was the daughter of the author William Somerset Maugham. 1936

Anthony Lindsay-Hogg and Frances Doble by Yevonde
Sir Anthony Lindsay-Hogg pictured with his fiancee, the actress, Frances Doble, prior to their marriage on 16 December 1929. Date: 1929

Lord and Lady Derwent by Madame Yevonde
Portrait of Lord and Lady Derwent by Madame Yevonde

Carlton Street, Castleford, Yorkshire
Carlton Street, Castleford, near Pontefract, Yorkshire, England. Showing Madame Enids Hairdressing Saloon Date: 1910s

Primrose Phyllis Salt by Madame Yevonde. She was the daughter of Major-General Harold Francis Salt DSO, making her debut in 1933. Date: 1933

Mrs. Cunningham Reid (Mary Ashley)
Hon. Ruth Mary Clarisse Ashley, daughter of multi-millionaire, Lt-Col Wilfred Ashley (1st Baron Mount Temple) and sister of Edwina, Countess Mountbatten

Elisabeth of France (1602-1644). Queen consort of Spain (1621 to 1644) and Portugal (1621 to 1640) as the first wife of King Philip IV of Spain

Lady Mary Cambridge by Madame Yevonde
Lady Mary Whitley (n饠 Lady Mary Ilona Margaret Cambridge; 24 September 1924 13 December 1999), relative of the British Royal Family

Scene from the opera, Madame Butterfly, by Giacomo Puccini: Cio Cio Sans uncle, the Bonze, interrupts her marriage ceremony to Lieutenant Colonel F. B

Anastasia Bitsenko going to Brest-Litovsk peace meeting
Anastasia Bitsenko (also spelt Biecenko and Bizenko)

Madame Vacani
Madame Marguerite Vacani, dance and deportment teacher pictured in caricature as walking on air, and admired by a group of adoring debutantes

A Madame Yevonde portrait of Lady Daphne Finch-Hatton
Lady Daphne Finch-Hatton was the eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Winchilsea and Nottingham

Lady Castellani and her daughter Lady Lampson
Josephine, nÚÑáStead (1875-1974), Lady Castellani, Wife of Sir Aldo Castellani; daughter of George Ambler Stead with her daughter Lady Jacqueline Lampson (1910-2015), wife of Sir Miles Lampson

Duchess of Buccleuch
Vreda Esther Mary Molly Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch (1900-1993)

Lady Mary Ashley-Cooper by Madame Yevonde
Lady Mary Ashley-Cooper, later Lady Alington posed with an unusual mask. Pictured in The Tatler just prior to her marriage to Lord Alington in November 1928. Date: 1928

Mr and Mrs Gerard D Erlanger
Gerard D Erlanger, son of Baron Emile D Erlanger, and his wife, Edythe Baker, pictured in a modern and artistic pair photograph by society photographer, Madame Yevonde. 1929

Scenes from Madame Sans-Gene (1925) starring Gloria Swanson, filmed in Paris. This lavishly produced romantic costume comedy-drama was directed by L鯮 ce Perret

Pink camellia Madame P de Pannemaeker, Thea japonica
Pink camellia Madame P. de Pannemaeker, Thea japonica.. Illustration and chromolithograph by P. de Pannemaeker of Ghent, from Jean Lindens L Illustration Horticole, 1880s

Irene Cholmondeley and stepmother by Madame Yevonde
Irene Cholmondeley (1913-?) and her stepmother by Madame Yevonde. She was the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Lord George Hugo Cholmondeley

Miss Susan Morland Date: 1952

Iris Murdoch - British Novelist
Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (1919-1999) - British Author and Philosopher Date: 1967

Nancy Mitford by Madame Yevonde
Nancy Freeman-Mitford (1904-1973), writer of comic novels, who was the eldest daughter of Lord and Lady Redesdale

String quartet, 1872
Mr.L.Ries, Madame Norman-Neruda, Herr Straus and Signore Piatti performing at one of the Monday popular concerts at St Jamess Hall. Date: 1872

The Female Blondin Crossing a High Wire over the River Tha
Engraving showing The Female Blondin, also known as Madame Boutelle and perhaps Polly Freeman, walking a high wire across the River Thames from Battersea to Cremorne Gardens, London, 1861

The Quinlan Opera Company
Promotional postcard for The Quinlan Opera Company. Billed as The Greatest Touring Company Ever Organized

Viscountess Harcourt and daughters by Madame Yevonde
Viscountess Harcourt and two daughters by Madame Yevonde. She was the wife of the 2nd Viscount Harcourt. Her daughters are the Hon. Elizabeth Ann Harcourt (b. 1932) and the Hon

Madame Peacock by Gilbert Rumbold
Lovely illustration showing a lady in a dress with a peacock feather skirt and matching fan. Date: 1927

Madame Tussauds waxwork museum in London, wax models of sports people W.G. Grace, W.T. Alden, J.B. Hobbs and Suzanne Lenglen c.1910s

Members of the Royal Family at Covent Garden
A gala opera performance at Covent Garden is attended by the Queen and the President of Portugal (in the centre). To the left is the Queen Mother and behind her are Sir Anthony and Lady Eden

Gowns That Express Poetic Ideas
Purple and blue wigs to complete the colour-schemes of dresses: gowns that express poetic ideas

Barbara Ann Scott
A waxwork at Madame Tussauds of the Canadian Ice Skater Barbara Ann Scott is dressed for display, seated before a model of England Football legend Sir Stanley Matthews

Sir Trevor Dawson, vice-president of Vickers, seen with Colonel and Madame Beldy at a garden party held at his home, Edgwarebury House in July 1930. Date: 1930

Sylvia Thompson by Madame Yevonde
Sylvia Thompson, Mrs Luling (1902 - 1968), English novelist, writer and public speaker photographed by Madame Yevonde. Date: 1931

Woman in a ball gown with mask, 1788
Woman in a ball gown, with chapeau topped with a pouf decorated with ribbons and laurel leaves, fichu, corset in English taffeta, and blue taffeta petticoat

Bystander cover, Lady Veronica Blackwood by Madame Yevonde
Lady Veronica Brenda Woolfe (nÚÑáBlackwood) (1910-1971), Former wife of Sir Antony Hornby and of Ernest Maddick and of Thomas Hussey

Scarlet camellia, Madame Rudolphe Abel, Thea japonica.. Illustration by P. Stroobant, lithographed by L

France Grignan
Le chateau de Grignan, in the Drome departement : madame de Sevignes daughter, to whom she wrote those wonderful letters, was comtesse de Grignan. Date: circa 1840

Mrs Gisborne

Interior of Louis Kentners house Date: 1960

BORZOI / HEAD / 1910
A Borzoi bred by Madame la Comtesse Greffuhle. Date: 1910

The Duke of Edinburgh as musician
Engraving showing Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh playing the violin to accompany the singer

French Cartomancy Book
Comment se tirer les cartes soi-meme (How to interpret the cards yourself) - a French popular manual by Madame Athena

Madame Vestris
LUCIA ELIZABETH VESTRIS (nee Bartolozzi), actress, singer and manager : as Venus in The Paphian Bower

Theosophist First No
THE THEOSOPHIST cover of the first number of Madame Blavatskys house journal

1st British-Australian Scout Troop (Madame Melbas Own), group photo taken in Dulwich, South London, May 1913. Date: 1913

South African soldiers at the Alamein Club, Cairo, Egypt
WW2 - South African soldiers on opening night at the Alamein Club, Cairo, Egypt - enjoying a show by a local belly dancer - part of Madame Badia's Entertainers. Date: 1943

Lady Ankaret Cecilia Caroline Jackson, nee Howard (1900 - 1945), photographed by Yevonde

Page from The Tatler, 28th March 1934: Riviera News featuring Madame van der Heyden Hauzeur, Lady de Bathe, Sir E and Lady Wills, Mlle Chanel at Roquebrune

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth seated on eighteenth century chairs alongside President Lebrun and his wife, at the Bagatelle at which a large garden party, with around 4000 guests

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth attending a garden party alongside President Lebrun and Mme. Lebrun at the Bagatelle, held in their honour during their visit to Paris in 1938

The royal visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Paris in July 1938. On the afternoon of the 20th July the King and Queen, with President and Mme

Rosamond Nina Lehmann CBE (1901 - 1990), English novelist and translator, photographed by Madame Yevonde at the time her first novel, Dusty Answer had been published by Chatto & Windus

Actress Joan Maude (1908 - 1998), photographed by Madame Yevonde with her fiance Frank Waters, Scottish rugby international and Cambridge blue. Date: 1933

Mrs Charles Sweeny by Madame Yevonde
Margaret Whigham (1912 - 1993), British society figure, debutante of the year in 1930

Clare Sheridan (born as Clare Consuelo Frewen; also known as Clare Consuelo Sheridan) (9 September 1885 - 31 May 1970), English sculptress, traveller and writer

The designer of Nymph Errant dresses

Ernest Thesiger (1879 - 1961), actor, author and artist, pictured by Madame Yevonde working on a number of caricatures of people who featured in his recently-written memoires, Practically True'

Madame Merry Del Val
A portrait painting of Madame Maria Merry del Val, Wife of Don Alfonso Merry del Val, Spanish Ambassador to England and daughter of Don Pablo de Alzola, she is seated, wearing a blue dress. Date: 1914

Marie-Therese (1778-1851), called Madame Royale
Portrait of two of the children of Louis XVI of France (1754-1793) and Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793): Marie-Therese (1778-1851), called Madame Royale, and Louis Charles (1785-1795)

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